from the same-faces,-same-disastrous-policies dept

Just a month or so after the RIAA reshuffled management, and promoted the folks who had driven the recording industry off a cliff to give them even more power, it looks like the MPAA is doing the same. Chris Dodd, who waited mere weeks before breaking his promise not to become a lobbyist after leaving the Senate and joining the MPAA (welcome to Hollywood, where giving your word on something is entirely meaningless), has lined up his new leadership team... and it's more of the same. The same people making the same bad decisions, taking the MPAA down the same disastrous road as the RIAA before it.

The key player here is Michael O'Leary, who was already a VP, but will take on an expanded role. You may recall O'Leary from his laughable attempt to pretend that censoring the internet via PROTECT IP is part of the American way.

What's really sad is that if either of these organizations actually brought in folks with a tiny bit of insight into where the opportunities are actually happening in their world today, we might actually see some progress, rather than the tactic of pretending that you can break the internet to save the business models of a few legacy companies who don't want to bother innovating. I have to admit that I have trouble understanding the minds of people who seek to hold back progress and prop up dead business models, but apparently it pays well for the time being.